I learned from a good friend to always keep a notebook and pencil handy at night. Why? For what I've come to call "Lipstick Moments". Those times when you are trying to get some sleep only to have a flash of brilliance.
Now, if you are single and sleep in your own room it's easy to sit up, turn on the light, and jot things down, but many people I know have either roommates or spouses and turning on a light just isn't going to happen. So, I recommend a large notebook and a mechanical pencil.
I bet you are wondering why "lipstick"...well a good friend once had a flash, couldn't turn on the light and didn't have a pencil/notebook handy so she wrote a poem in lipstick on her arm. Went back to sleep and by morning.......yaaaa her arm was a lovely "Autumn Rose", but the poem was gone.
I share this because last night I had one of theses LMs and was ever so glad I could sit up, write, and in the morning read it. Actually I've gotten quite good at writing in the dark. So that is the advice for now; keep paper/pencil handy even in your sleep.
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